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We say farewell to Rosa Murillo from Spain, who spent 4 productive months in iPEG study virus interactions and immunity in Spodoptera caterpillars – we will miss you, Rosa. iPEG 2017. Left to right: Dr Annabel Rice (Research technician), Dr Rosa Murillo (visiting researcher, Spain), Ken Wilson (PI), Bobby Holdbrook (PhD student), Pengjun Xu (visiting […]

Ken and Rob graham (former iPEG, now at Harper Adams University) conduct a research visit to  Arusha and meet with long-term collaborators at Crop Bioscience Solutions Ltd., and new collaborators at the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM-AIST). Ken with former deputy VC of NM-AIST Professor Ndakidemi

Ken and Rob Graham are successful in securing GCRF funding for further armyworm research!

Pengjun Xu from China starts in iPEG on a Royal Society-SBFT Fellowship Trust International Fellowship to study host-pathogen-symbiont interactions in armyworm – Welcome!

Ken visits University of Zambia for talks on the invasive Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) and publishes an article on the issue in The Conversation Africa Ken with UNZA Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mumba

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization organise an emergency meeting on “Emerging High Impact Trans boundary Crop Pests and Animal Diseases”, focussing particular attention on the new invasive Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) that is spreading across Africa. Ken give a presentation on what we can learn from African armyworm outbreaks in the region. Read […]

…. and it’s off to the British Ecological Society winter meeting in Liverpool.

Congratulations to Pengjun Xu, a collaborator and co-author from CAS in China, who has been awarded a Royal Society-SBFT Fellowship Trust International Fellowship to work in Ken’s lab for two years on a project entitled “Pathogen resistance in a major crop pest”. Pengjun will look at the interactions between armyworms, Wolbachia and biopesticides, starting March […]